On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chuck wrote:

> On 22 Jan 2006 22:03:41 GMT, Linda > wrote:
>
> ><Sigh>
> >
> >I have checked my freezer temp. and have made sure there is enough
> >circulation... yada yada.
> >
> >This is kind of a dumb question but..
> >if you would freeze something in water
> >that is already encircled/encase in a plastic wrap, aluminum foil
> >or air tight container...
> >would you get or tast freezer burn??
> >
> >Example..
> >a chicken breast wrapped tightly & frozed vs.
> >chicken breast wrapped and wrapped tightly, water poured over &
> >frozed.
> >
> >I know the first wrapping if left too long in MY freezer would
> >produce the freezer burn and freezer burn taste,
> >
> >Would the item encased in ice do the same?
> >
> >I hope you understand my question.
> >
> >Just curious.
> >
> >Thanks!
> This is the ONLY way my dad would freeze fresh caught fish when I was
> a kid.. to prevent freezer burn..
> He'd take 1/2 gallon cardboard milk carton that had been washed out..
> The top glued seams carefully pulled apart. Inserted fish that had
> been cleaned and scaled, fill with water, top closed back and
> stapled..then freeze..
> Chuck (in SC)
>

I remember the the "old folks" doing that.

A number of years ago when Florida had citrus on the trees, a cold front
was moving across this area and a heavy frost and hard freeze was
expected. To save the citrus, the orchard folks sprayed the citrus with
water, encasing the fruit in a thick coating of ice. It "saved" the
citrus (it could only be used for juice because it broke down the pulp or
something, but it "saved" it).

This is one of those concepts that I have trouble with - like a two inch
water pipe will deliver *four* times as much water as a one inch water
pipe, and with the Interstate highway system, if you want to travel North,
go east, and if you want to travel South, go west, and if you are in
Alaska and you want to stay warm, build yourself a house out of ice.
Geez, these things are just not linearly logical.

And so it was with the citrus. Wasn't Mother Nature just going to do the
same thing the farmers were doing? Apparently not. They were saving the
citrus using the same means by which she was going to kill it. go figure.

Elaine, too